Atmospheric evolution of molecular-weight-separated brown carbon from biomass burning

Wong, Jenny P. S.; Tsagkaraki, Maria; Tsiodra, Irini; Mihalopoulos, Nikolaos; Violaki, Kalliopi; Kanakidou, Maria; Sciare, Jean; Nenes, Athanasios; Weber, Rodney J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-7319-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-7319-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-7319-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 11

Research article

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04 Jun 2019

Research article |

| 04 Jun 2019

Atmospheric evolution of molecular-weight-separated brown carbon from biomass burning

Jenny P. S. Wong, Maria Tsagkaraki, Irini Tsiodra, Nikolaos Mihalopoulos, Kalliopi Violaki, Maria Kanakidou, Jean Sciare, Athanasios Nenes, and Rodney J. Weber

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RC1: 'review of Wong et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 07 Oct 2018
- AC1: 'Author Response to Reviewer #1', Jenny Pui Shan Wong, 20 Dec 2018
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- AC2: 'Author Response to Reviewer #2', Jenny Pui Shan Wong, 20 Dec 2018

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Biomass burning is a major source of light-absorbing organic species in atmospheric aerosols, and it can play an important role in climate and atmospheric chemistry. Through a combination of laboratory experiments and field observations, this work demonstrated that the light absorption properties of aged biomass burning organic aerosols are dominated by high-molecular-weight compounds. In addition, we found that total hydrated sugars may be a robust tracer for aged biomass burning aerosols.